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. 1978;5(1):241-4.
doi: 10.1002/mpo.2950050133.

Increasing incidence of Gram-positive sepsis in cancer patients

P A Pizzo, S Ladisch, R M Simon, F Gill, A S Levine

Increasing incidence of Gram-positive sepsis in cancer patients

P A Pizzo et al. Med Pediatr Oncol. 1978.

Abstract

A review of the agents causing septicemia in cancer patients during a nine-year period (1968--76) revealed that Gram-positive organisms (especially S aureus) have become the most frequent isolates during the last two years. This unanticipated increase (P less than 0.001) in the number of Gram-positive isolates could not be related to horizontal transmission nor to changes in patient characteristics or therapy.

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